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(No Model H. W, GR'0EBL. TABLE'LEG FASTENING.

- Patented Apr-.29, 1884..

NO'Q 297,931 r UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

H. WILLIAM GROEBL, OF VINGENNES, INDIANA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO JAMES A. PLUMMER, OF SAME PLACE.

TABLE-LEG FASTENING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 297,931; dated April 29, 1884.

,/ Application filed October 10, 1883. (No model.)

ToaZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, H. WILLIAM GRoEBL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Vincennes, in the county of Knox and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Corner Fastenings; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters or figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a representation of this invention, and is a perspective view. Fig. 2 is a horizontal section. Fig. 3 is a perspective detail showing the outer casting. Fig. 4: is a perspective view of the two inner 2o castings.

This invention has relation to corner-fastenings for tables, coffins, and the like; and it consists in the construction and novel arrangement of devices, as will be hereinafter fully 2 5 described, and particularly pointed out in the claim appended.

The drawings show the fastenings applied to the corners of table-rails; but it is obvious that it is'equally applicable to coffins and other articles where secure corners are required.

Referring by letter to the accompanying drawings, a and b designate the side rail and end rail of a table. The outer faces of the rails e of the outer castings, d, are semicircular in 0 cross-section, and are provided with bolt-holes f f for the passage of the bolts 9. The inner angular castings, h, are concavo convex in cross-section, as shown, their angles fitting the inner straight faces of' the rails a and b near their adjacent ends when said rails are 5 at right angles to each other. The threaded ends of the'bolts 9 pass through bolt-holes g in the inner castings, and nuts 1 are employed to clamp the outer and inner castings against the rails. The shoulderedtable-leg k is passed up into the socket Z, formed between the rails and the casting, thelower bolt, 9, being passed througha perforation or hole, m, before the lower inner casting is driven to place, which will prevent the leg from being pulled out of the socket. The inner castings are preferably made in sections, while the outer castings are preferably made in one piece, and may be plated, if desired.

For coffins or forcorners of articles that need no legs, the sockets l are not filled; at least they need not be. This makes a cheap and absolutely rigid cornerfastening, and where it is employed the parts may be quickly put together, and as quickly taken to pieces, whennecessary.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, isa The combination, with the adjacent rails or 7c and b, having shouldered seats in their outer faces at their ends, of the outer casting having flanges to fit the seat, and the body portion provided with perforations and the inner angular concavo-convex perforated castings, and

the bolts, table-leg, and securing-nuts, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof I affixmy signature in presence of two witnesses.

H. WILLIAM GROEBL.

Witnesses: 1 B. M. WILLOUGHBY, S. N. CHAMBERS. 

